However the former right half-back has little desire to emulate the iconic leader when he calls time on his club career with Tullaroan, despite assisting with some coaching at his local side.

He said: ‘I’ve absolutely no interest whatsoever. At the moment, anyway. When I’m hurling, I love just going out and playing. You’re like a free bird there for a couple of hours.

Kilkenny legend Tommy Walsh has opened up on why he would never want to become a hurling manager. Pic: INPHO/James Crombie

‘When you’re managing a team you have to remember everything — you have to organise physios, buses, you’re trying to organise training sessions, coaches. The better organised you are, the better you’re going to be.

‘That’s not what I enjoy about the game. I enjoy going out and letting it flow. I’m involved in our own club at the moment with the underage.

‘I love going down to the field and a young lad at the start of the year isn’t able to hit the ball off his weak hand but by the end of it, you might see him at the end of a training session and he puts the ball over the bar and you give him the thumbs up or a clap on the back. And he’s smiling going off home. That’s what I love.

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